Cost Estimator – Data Center Programs

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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QC Servion, LLC

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51 - 200 employees

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Legal • Marketing • Logistics

QC Servion is the centralized operations hub that provides wholesale management of HR, accounting, legal, contracts, marketing, administration, and safety services across the QC Ecosystem. It delivers recruitment and onboarding, employee development and benefits administration, marketing and communications support, workplace safety programs and compliance guidance, contract management, and accounting and financial reporting to allow affiliated companies to focus on growth and operational excellence. QC Servion supports efficient processes, regulatory compliance, and employee experience across a network of portfolio companies.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain conceptual, schematic, design development, and detailed cost estimates throughout the project lifecycle • Build and maintain cost models for planning, budgeting, and executive decision-making • Benchmark costs against comparable data center, mission-critical, industrial, and infrastructure projects • Perform quantity takeoffs and pricing for mechanical systems, electrical systems, site utilities, civil infrastructure, and building systems • Maintain current market pricing, labor assumptions, escalation factors, and productivity data • Support value engineering and cost optimization initiatives • Develop and maintain project budgets from initial concept through construction • Support capital planning, investment analysis, and commercial decision-making • Track budget movements and explain variances • Evaluate cost impacts of design changes, scope modifications, and procurement decisions • Provide accurate forecasting and budget visibility during project execution • Review, validate, and challenge contractor, consultant, and trade partner estimates • Identify gaps, exclusions, assumptions, contingencies, and cost risks • Support bid evaluations, subcontractor leveling, and procurement activities • Prepare independent cost opinions and estimate reviews • Partner with scheduling and program controls teams to assess schedule impacts • Evaluate cost implications of acceleration, delays, resequencing, long-lead procurement changes, and scope modifications • Quantify escalation, extended general conditions, and remobilization costs • Align cost forecasts with master schedules • Collaborate with development, engineering, construction, utility, commissioning, and PMO teams • Participate in project planning sessions, design reviews, and program discussions • Present estimate assumptions, risks, and recommendations to project teams and leadership • Support funding reviews, project reporting, and executive presentations

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered • 5+ years of estimating, cost management, preconstruction, commercial management, or capital project delivery experience • Experience supporting data center projects, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure programs, energy or utility projects, or large-scale commercial developments • Experience estimating complex mechanical, electrical, civil, or infrastructure systems • Ability to review and validate contractor estimates, budgets, and pricing assumptions • Strong understanding of cost planning, quantity takeoffs, budget development, procurement processes, schedule impacts on cost, and capital project delivery • Experience with estimating software such as CostX, On-Screen Takeoff, Sage Estimating, Bluebeam, or similar platforms • Working knowledge of Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project • Strong analytical, financial, and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities • Preferred: experience supporting hyperscale or large-scale data center developments • Preferred: owner's representative, EPC, construction management, or developer-side experience • Preferred: experience estimating projects exceeding $100M in construction value • Preferred: medium-voltage infrastructure, utility systems, substations, microgrids, or on-site generation solutions experience • Preferred: capital planning, project finance, or investment review experience • CCP, PE, CEM, CCM, PQS, or similar professional certification preferred • Preferred: experience working within multi-project campus development programs • Ability to meet stated physical demands, with reasonable accommodations available • Ability to travel up to 25%, including travel to any or all 50 US states

🏖️ Benefits

• Choice of comprehensive medical plans, including two PPO-style plans and a HDHP with HSA option • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) • Dental and vision plans • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for spouse/domestic partner and dependent children up to age 26 • 401(k) with company match and self-directed brokerage account option • PTO, including additional paid time off during the last week of the year • Company-paid life insurance for employees and eligible dependents • Short- and long-term disability and AD&D coverage • Professional development opportunities • Tuition reimbursement • Professional licensing assistance • Paid parental leave after one year of employment